I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We have stories we love to tell and stories we have never told anyone. The extent to which others know us is determined by the stories we choose to share. We extend a deep trust to someone when we say, "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone." Sharing stories creates trust because through stories we come to a recognition of how much we have in common.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.